English-French translations for false friend

• faux-ami
• faux ami
  Ce serait du bon mondialisme par rapport au mauvais mondialisme, tel qu' il est pratiqué avec les zones de libre-échange et autres faux amis de l' OCDE. That would be good internationalism as opposed to the bad internationalism, as practised with the free exchange areas and other false friends of the OECD.

Definition of false friend

• A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning

Examples

• A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart

Related words

• false friends
• partial false friend
• total false friend